Date in MM-dd-yy format

Most of the time in C# code we need to format datetime as per requirement. Here we are going to discuss how to format date in MM-dd-yy format.So when we give input date as “10-29-11” then date will get formatted like “10/29/11”.

Sample code to format date in MM-dd-yy format [C#] :

using System;
using System.Globalization;

public class DateFormatSample
{
 public static void Main()
 {
  string dateToFormat = "10-29-11";
  string strFormatPattern = "MM-dd-yy";
  DateTime formattedDate;
  DateTime.TryParseExact(dateToFormat, strFormatPattern, null, 
  DateTimeStyles.None, out formattedDate);
  Console.WriteLine("Date '{0}' Formatted to {1:d}.", dateToFormat, formattedDate);
 }
}
//    output:
//    Date '12-30-11' Formatted to 12/30/2011.

Here MM displays in format 01 to 12, dd represents Day of the month with range from 01 to 31 and yy is year from 00 to 99.

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do Postback in Javascript [ASP.NET]

In this post we will see how to postback page in ASP.NET from the client side using JavaScript. In some cases we need to postback page from client side i.e. by using JavaScript.
We can use __doPostBack() to postback page from client script using JavaScript.Or we can use Page.GetPostBackEventReference() to do postback from JavaScript. When we use Page.GetPostBackEventReference() it internally get converted to __doPostBack().

Sample that shows how to do postback from JavaScript [ASP.NET, C#]:

< input type="button" id="BaseButton1" onclick="submitPage()" value="OK"/>

Now after clicking on button it will call JavaScript function that will do the postback and then in page load we will capture and perform the operation that is needed.In code behind we use Request[ "__EVENTARGUMENT"] to get the request so that we can perform some operation on that event argument.So below is JavaScript function that uses Page.GetPostBackEventReference() and do the postback from Javascript.

function submitpage() 
{ 
  // trigger postback from JavaScript
   <%= this.Page.GetPostBackEventReference(this,"Delete")%> 
} 

Here “this” parameter in Page.GetPostBackEventReference(this, “Delete”) is the controls id and referred to as __EVENTTARGET and accessed using Request[“__EVENTTARGET”] in code behind to determine which control caused postback from JavaScript.And “Delete” is __EVENTARGUMENT and accessed using Request[ "__EVENTARGUMENT"] in code behind.

So now in code behind we can check for Request[ "__EVENTARGUMENT"] and perform some operations based on that condition like:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) 
{ 
string eventArg = Request["__EVENTARGUMENT"]; 
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(eventArg)) 
{ 
 if(eventArg == "Delete")
 DeleteRecords();
}
} 

private void DeleteRecords() 
{ 
 //Do something
} 

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